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UpGuard BreachSight

114Judge labels
23First choices
15Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
22% in DRP for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
8 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 21 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of UpGuard BreachSight →
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In drp · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named UpGuard BreachSight for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Digital risk protectionSecurity operations22%1 of 865%21accepted challenger
Attack surface managementSecurity operations6%5 of 10018%17accepted challenger▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for UpGuard BreachSight yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated UpGuard BreachSight across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.512115
GPT-5.4 mini12003
Gemini 3.5 Flash04004
Perplexity Sonar22105
Grok 4.2010113
Mistral Small11002
DeepSeek V4 Flash10023
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K221003
GLM 4.7 FlashX21003
MiniMax M2.511002
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B20103

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct32 labels12
Paraphrase22 labels7
Comparative20 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labels3
Scale-constrained9 labels1
Negative15 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative114 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 26 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“UpGuard is the most frequently named fit for consolidated DRP + vendor / user risk outcomes without multiple point tools” Muse Glimmer 30B · DRP · direct prompt · first choice
“UpGuard is frequently highlighted as a top digital risk protection (DRP) platform for mid-market B2B companies” Mistral Small · DRP · direct prompt · first choice
“I would recommend UpGuard because: ✅ Specifically built for mid-market” MiniMax M2.5 · DRP · direct prompt · first choice
“the strongest default choice is Rapid7 Threat Command or UpGuard” Perplexity Sonar · DRP · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid at all costs (for your budget): Enterprise platforms like BitSight, UpGuard” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ASM · budget prompt · hard negative
“What to avoid ... UpGuard BreachSight: $5,999/year minimum.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DRP · budget prompt · hard negative
“aggregates asset data but lacks native capabilities for active vulnerability scanning or attack surface validation” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ASM · negative prompt · soft negative
“High-severity alerts often not actionable (investigation overhead); limited report/alert customization” Grok 4.20 · ASM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as UpGuard BreachSight, over the 114 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and UpGuard BreachSight was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cortex Xpanse23 of 1143Not among the top eight
Censys ASM18 of 1140Not among the top eight
Guardz16 of 11413Not among the top eight
Netcraft16 of 1143Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named UpGuard BreachSight. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 114 of the 114 answers that named UpGuard BreachSight and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

upguard.comYour site87
guideflow.com64
expertinsights.com62
g2.com62
cyberpress.org33
breachsense.com32
slashdot.org31
synack.com30
us.fitgap.com30
sourceforge.net27

371 of the 458 domain citations in answers naming UpGuard BreachSight came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where UpGuard BreachSight stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “digital risk protection platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “digital risk protection platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
10 a month (“upguard breachsight”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
0 a month
Its company's site
upguard.com shared with UpGuard's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 319,457 a month
Searches its site ranks for
27,900 · 1,457 in the top three
Sites linking to it
12,517
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 65 text, 53 image, 2 video · 25 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2024, as UpGuard, Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 108 in the year, 12 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
22%
rank 1 of 86 in DRP
First choices
23
across its categories
Named in
114 answers
Its own site cited
in 114 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as UpGuard BreachSight

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as UpGuard BreachSight; a claim can dispute any of them.
UpGuard 27UpGuard Breach Risk 3UpGuard (BreachSight / Breach Risk) 1UpGuard BreachSight / UpGuard Breach Risk 1

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The company

UpGuard is the company behind UpGuard BreachSight.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
A complete cyber risk posture management platform.
Price stated
Free trial upguard.com/product/breach-risk
Free plan or trial
Free trial upguard.com/platform
Integrations claimed
400 upguard.com/product/breach-risk
Customers named
Games24x7Camp Systems
Not stated on the pages read
Certifications, hosting

What UpGuard BreachSight's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: upguard.com/platform, upguard.com/product/breach-risk, upguard.com/releases/breachsight-monthly-email-digest, help.upguard.com/en/what-is-upguard-breach-risks-threat-monitoring, help.upguard.com/en/what-is-included-in-upguards-self-service-breach-risk-plans. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for UpGuard BreachSight by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where UpGuard BreachSight is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name UpGuard BreachSight, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where UpGuard BreachSight is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
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AI models recommend UpGuard BreachSight first in Digital risk protection this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

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AI models' first choice in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/digital-risk-protection/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/upguard-breachsight--digital-risk-protection-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Digital risk protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

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AI models' first choice in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/digital-risk-protection/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/upguard-breachsight--digital-risk-protection-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Digital risk protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

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AI models' first choice in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/security/digital-risk-protection/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/upguard-breachsight--digital-risk-protection-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Digital risk protection, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Digital risk protection standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.